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How to Fix Word of Mouth
Nate Elliott, VP and Principal Analyst
@nate_elliott
November 3, 2015
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Word of mouth marketing
isn’t working.
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Agenda
› WOM marketing isn’t working
› The state of the market
› How to fix word of mouth
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Agenda
› WOM marketing isn’t working
› The state of the market
› How to fix word of mouth
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WOM is a top driver of discovery
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Word of mouth is trusted
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WOM generates reach brands can’t
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But word of mouth marketing
isn’t working.
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But word of mouth marketing
isn’t working.
MARKETING
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Too many brands post and pray
But this does not
generate word of
mouth
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Or try to hijack hashtags
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Mistakes are piling up
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Mistakes are piling up
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Mistakes are piling up
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Mistakes are piling up
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Brands say it’s not delivering
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Both marketers and
vendors must do better.
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Agenda
› WOM marketing isn’t working
› The state of the market
› How to fix word of mouth
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Today, we published a WOMP landscape
• WOMP = Word of Mouth Platform
• Our vendor landscape reviewed 40 vendors
• Each filled out a questionnaire
• We interviewed two dozen of them
• We also interviewed and collected data from two
dozen word of mouth marketers
• Including some of the biggest brands in the world
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Forrester sees three kinds of WOM
1
Customer
Advocates
Use existing,
satisfied customers
to spread brand
messages.
2
Employee
Advocates
Use your employee
base to spread
brand messages.
3
Category
Influencers
Use people influential
among your key
audiences to spread
brand messages.
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And we looked at three types of WOMPs
1
Customer
Advocacy
Platforms
2
Employee
Advocacy
Platforms
3
Category
Influencer
Platforms
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Marketers love to chase influencers
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But most vendors work on advocacy
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Vendors focus on activation
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Social marketers rarely run WOM efforts
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Measurement is a mess
The average WOM
vendor offers
marketers 8
“success” metrics
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I asked 14 large brands if they
would recommend their WOM
vendor to a colleague.
Only 4 said they would.
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Agenda
› WOM marketing isn’t working
› The state of the market
› How to fix word of mouth
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Marketers have work to do.
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Fix 1:
Marketers must start
taking WOM seriously.
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Resolve to never again post and pray
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Never again hijack an irrelevant hashtag
Wrong Right
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And for goodness’ sake, put some
resources into this strategy
• Most marketers we spoke to said they had zero
or one person dedicated to WOM.
• Only half the marketers we spoke to said they
had increased their WOM investment in 2015.
• Most marketers I’ve spoken to don’t use any
external vendors to help with WOM.
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But if you fix the vendors,
you fix the industry.
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Fix 2:
WOM vendors must offer both
advocate and influencer services.
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Most vendors offer advocacy products
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But it’s time for WOMPs to consolidate
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WOM vendors must offer both advocate
and influencer services
• We’re not looking for end-to-end social suites.
• No vendor can do ads, organic, and WOM well.
• Clients of end-to-end social suites are less satisfied.
• But marketers can’t justify hiring three WOMPs.
• The vendors that offer complete WOM services will
win the market.
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Fix 3:
WOM vendors must offer
useful success metrics.
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Measurement is a mess
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WOM vendors must offer useful metrics
• Measure business outcomes, not operational
metrics like contacts and posts.
• Only one-quarter of vendors focus measurement on
business outcomes like awareness or sales.
• Integrate with the tools marketers trust.
• CMOs already use mix modeling and attribution
tools; make sure these vendors can use your data.
forrester.com
Thank you
Name
nelliott@forrester.com
@nate_elliott

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Nate Eliott Forrester presentation for WOMMA

  • 1.
  • 2. How to Fix Word of Mouth Nate Elliott, VP and Principal Analyst @nate_elliott November 3, 2015
  • 3. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 3 Word of mouth marketing isn’t working.
  • 4. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 4 Agenda › WOM marketing isn’t working › The state of the market › How to fix word of mouth
  • 5. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 5 Agenda › WOM marketing isn’t working › The state of the market › How to fix word of mouth
  • 6. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 6 WOM is a top driver of discovery
  • 7. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 7 Word of mouth is trusted
  • 8. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 8 WOM generates reach brands can’t
  • 9. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 9
  • 10. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 10 But word of mouth marketing isn’t working.
  • 11. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 11 But word of mouth marketing isn’t working. MARKETING
  • 12. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 12 Too many brands post and pray But this does not generate word of mouth
  • 13. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 13 Or try to hijack hashtags
  • 14. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 14 Mistakes are piling up
  • 15. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 15 Mistakes are piling up
  • 16. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 16 Mistakes are piling up
  • 17. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 17 Mistakes are piling up
  • 18. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 18 Brands say it’s not delivering
  • 19. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 19 Both marketers and vendors must do better.
  • 20. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 20 Agenda › WOM marketing isn’t working › The state of the market › How to fix word of mouth
  • 21. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 21 Today, we published a WOMP landscape • WOMP = Word of Mouth Platform • Our vendor landscape reviewed 40 vendors • Each filled out a questionnaire • We interviewed two dozen of them • We also interviewed and collected data from two dozen word of mouth marketers • Including some of the biggest brands in the world
  • 22. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 22 Forrester sees three kinds of WOM 1 Customer Advocates Use existing, satisfied customers to spread brand messages. 2 Employee Advocates Use your employee base to spread brand messages. 3 Category Influencers Use people influential among your key audiences to spread brand messages.
  • 23. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 23 And we looked at three types of WOMPs 1 Customer Advocacy Platforms 2 Employee Advocacy Platforms 3 Category Influencer Platforms
  • 24. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 24 Marketers love to chase influencers
  • 25. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 25 But most vendors work on advocacy
  • 26. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 26 Vendors focus on activation
  • 27. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 27 Social marketers rarely run WOM efforts
  • 28. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 28 Measurement is a mess The average WOM vendor offers marketers 8 “success” metrics
  • 29. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 29 I asked 14 large brands if they would recommend their WOM vendor to a colleague. Only 4 said they would.
  • 30. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 30 Agenda › WOM marketing isn’t working › The state of the market › How to fix word of mouth
  • 31. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 31 Marketers have work to do.
  • 32. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 32 Fix 1: Marketers must start taking WOM seriously.
  • 33. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 33 Resolve to never again post and pray
  • 34. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 34 Never again hijack an irrelevant hashtag Wrong Right
  • 35. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 35 And for goodness’ sake, put some resources into this strategy • Most marketers we spoke to said they had zero or one person dedicated to WOM. • Only half the marketers we spoke to said they had increased their WOM investment in 2015. • Most marketers I’ve spoken to don’t use any external vendors to help with WOM.
  • 36. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 36 But if you fix the vendors, you fix the industry.
  • 37. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 37 Fix 2: WOM vendors must offer both advocate and influencer services.
  • 38. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 38 Most vendors offer advocacy products
  • 39. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 39 But it’s time for WOMPs to consolidate
  • 40. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 40 WOM vendors must offer both advocate and influencer services • We’re not looking for end-to-end social suites. • No vendor can do ads, organic, and WOM well. • Clients of end-to-end social suites are less satisfied. • But marketers can’t justify hiring three WOMPs. • The vendors that offer complete WOM services will win the market.
  • 41. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 41 Fix 3: WOM vendors must offer useful success metrics.
  • 42. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 42 Measurement is a mess
  • 43. © 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 43 WOM vendors must offer useful metrics • Measure business outcomes, not operational metrics like contacts and posts. • Only one-quarter of vendors focus measurement on business outcomes like awareness or sales. • Integrate with the tools marketers trust. • CMOs already use mix modeling and attribution tools; make sure these vendors can use your data.